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Report a Mistake- Object Number 19810260-001
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
1939-1945 Battle of the Atlantic - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Inscription GIFT OF SEAMANS FUR VESTS WAR PROJECT ONTARIO DIVISION TORONTO
- Materials Cotton, Common raccoon fur
- Service Component Merchant Navy
- Measurements Length 70.8 cm, Width 57.2 cm
- Caption Sailor's Fur Vest
- Additional Information Canadian volunteer organizations helped make and supply warm fur-lined vests like this to members of the navy and merchant navy. Working as part of an organization called the "Seamen's Fur Vests War Project," fur companies and fur industry workers in cities like Montreal and Toronto helped fashion these vests from donated fur coats or from fur pelts. Groups like the Navy League or the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire then distributed them. This particular example came from the estate of Percy Wooster, a banker heavily involved in the Navy League in Halifax, Nova Scotia.